wine is cheap and nobody is buying it, so lets RAISE the price!!! yeah that's the ticket...Vendors who make terroristic threats because the government won’t coerce neighbors to pay more for their product deserve to be treated like the criminals they are.
“That ended with the French army shooting dead six demonstrators.”
Seems fitting if they promote violence against folks for either not paying higher prices for their product or for purchasing or selling wine from other countries.
Maybe Trader Joe could use this to come up with some one-buck Chuck.
Sounds like a good time to rework the business model. Maybe a Napa-style winery tour bed and breakfast resort kind of thing marketed heavily at well-to-do American urban lefties. It’d cost a bit to get it up and running, but they could charge a premium for it. Either that- or some similarly creative solution- or get out of the business.
Starting a shooting war over it is completely absurd.
I'm sorry for their families, but if no one wants their wine I don't see how you get around that.
What they are fighting against is market demand. Violence is hardly a convincing argument when targeted against the few groups that could actually help you out.
As I hear it, much of this wine is being bought up to convert for other purposes so it won't be a total waste.
I think the problem is truly "too many vineyards producing swill".
So they want to commit terrorist acts for people not drinking their swill? Lovely...
Story from winter, 2007 -
French vintners will boil away millions of litres of Beaujolais wine into fuel additives, disinfectants and cleaning products. The reason? There’s a glut of wine on the European market.
French wine makers blame the overproduction on overseas competition and less wine drinkers.
The socialists in the European Union are paying vintners to destroy their wine stock, turn it into alcohol or rip out vineyards.
Philippe Terrollion, director of the Beaujolais Distillery in central-eastern France, sent out a fleet of lorries to pick up an expected 8.5 million litres of unbottled, unsold Beaujolais. That’s enough to fill about 125 swimming pools.
Wine consumers around the globe are reaching for wines produced in the New World, such as wine produced in Chile, Australia and the United States.
One winemaker blamed a pernicious arrogance among the French.
“In France, we used to think we were the biggest and best and no-one could touch us,” said Louis-Fabrice Latour, who heads the Louis Latour label in Burgundy.
“It’s clear we can’t go on like this,” said Terrollion.
Socialism at its finest is the cause.
They want the government to fix their failure to be good businessmen.
wine is cheap and nobody is buying it, so lets RAISE the price!!! yeah that's the ticket...LEt them make alcohol and sell it for fuel.
Welcome to the free market. However, Sarkozy’s reforms may make French products more competitive.
Whisky Rebellion? Okay, French political culture has shown, that violence works. If you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it. France subsidizes violent politics, so why wouldn’t the wine-growers turn to the French State to extort from their fellow citizens?
Why would I want to buy a French Sauvignon Blanc for $14.99, when I can get a far superior Marlborough, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc from $8.99 or $9.99?
Hmmmm....guerrilla vintners imprisoned —> fewer wine producers —> supply goes down —> price goes up. Problem solved.
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